Medical Advisory Committee Continues Review of Spinal Cord Stimulators

Oregon’s Medical Advisory Committee will continue its review of whether spinal cord stimulators should be compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law, during an Aug. 4. Meeting. The committee will hear a presentation of recommendations from a subcommittee that reviewed issues relating to the compensability of spinal cord stimulators. The subcommittee’s recommendations are not part of the agenda for the advisory committee meeting. The state-chartered SAIF Corp., Oregon’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, submitted a memo to the advisory com...